Yeah, Israel tends to hit back a bit harder than we do...we get all hyped up to get even with the terrorist for blowing up US skyscrapers and killing thousands of people...and then get mired in politically correct warfare. (Which can be kind of of us sweet really)

Israel gets terrorist attacks, with thousands of dead and wounded, and retaliates by bull dozing the houses of terrorists, etc, - the terrorists fight back by wailing how the mean Israelis bull dozed the kind doctor's house and killed his baby niece...but surprise surprise...they discover that the terrorists "borrow" people/babies from hospitals/other religeous factions, and sprikle them about for effect from time to time...to spin the retailiation in their favor.

If it were America, we'd be apologizing and court martialing Marines left and right, begging for international forgiveness.

In Isreal, they're more in the mode of "Fuck'm - They're lying, we were justified".

Of course, in the middle east, it really never matters who's right once blood is spilled...it must be "avenged".

So Israel knows this reality, as do the terrorists, and they just tilt at each other over and over.

The fact that whenever the surrounding forces have attacked Israel, vowing to destroy them/push them into the sea, etc...Israel not only wins, but takes the bordering land a s buffer zone to help keep out terrorists.

Then the terrorists wail that Israel took their land/built a big fence through it so they cannot get to their families olive grove/shoe store, or whatever.

Israel lets a few remain within rocket range a favor/to be nice, and rockets start landing on Israeli towns.

:rolleyes:

Israel says, OK, I'll give you that buffer zone land back, if you promise not to come over and blow up school buses full of children, bistro diners, etc.

Most there want peace, on both sides.

The ones who don't sabotague it every chance they get.

Now, the terrorists are trying hostage taking. If you pay for hostages, as has happened in South/Central America, hostage taking becomes a HUGELY successful strategy.

Israel says no negotiating with terrorists, because it encourages whatever behavior works for terrorism....and rolls into Fuck'm back mode.

And here we are.